Improving the health and economic vitality of our rural communities through innovation.
The Center for Rural Health Innovation finds and cultivates innovation and convenes buying power.
As our Center’s team encounters innovative solutions, we communicate directly with patients, providers, and payers. The Center is guided by three key values:
The Center uses rural community buying power to reimagine care delivery through innovative health solutions, proposing that the money currently spent could be reallocated and applied to local economies to be used by community, for community.
Across Missouri’s 99 rural counties, there is nearly $18 billion spent annually on the cost of healthcare. The Center for Rural Health Innovation refers to this as rural Missouri’s buying power.
The Center for Rural Health Innovation has identified four major focus areas that shape the future of care delivery in rural communities. The focus areas are not mutually exclusive; they rely on one another to bring digital solutions to scale. Understanding the scope of each focus area and its unique distinctions related to rural health frames the work of The Center and its partners.
Infrastructure + Workforce
Affordable High-Speed Broadband
Transportation, Food, Jobs, etc.
“The health of all Missourians has been a major focus of my administration. Innovation in rural health promises to solve some of our rural communities’ most challenging health issues by providing new technologies, new ways of thinking, new processes, and new systems. With health and economic success linked in so many ways, if we can improve the health of our rural residents, we can increase economic opportunity.”
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